For my closing question, what could you recommend to the committee that government must do differently to see the results that other jurisdictions, such as Norway, have? We keep getting pointed to models where they've had a successful balance.
Something that concerned me—it was in your statement as well—was that a management tool of DFO is not to reduce herds. That concerns me as an east coast politician, as I know we've had clearly documented dramatic growth in the seal herd in Atlantic Canada. I don't think anybody is disputing the fact that it's having an impact on fish stocks and that it could eventually move into fish stocks where it is not currently, such as lobster and crab. They will eat them. We're also told that when they run out of one food source, they will move to another.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why DFO does not have a management tool to reduce a herd that is having an obvious and negative impact when other jurisdictions do.
Thank you, Chair.